Early Life

Political Incident

It was the end of the day,the lift doors were closing,the office commute began here. I pulled my Portobello furscruff tight over my mini skirtand

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Decades of Misperception

You’ve always had it so good,that’s what the kids said the other morningas they languished at the kitchen tablehungover from vodka at the London clubstill

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Catching the Dawn

The air was dampwith silk-spun mistdraping itself over the still water. The moorhen’s solitary saluteechoed across the shore,as the dinghy rockedour unsteady feet. I felt

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Stars in our Eyes

The air is sticky with popcorn as the door swirls me in.The vast atrium, arrayed of garish colours, plastic, multiple screens,buzzes with a confusion of

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Life Circles: from Lisbon to Nice

The child climbed the gangplank,my small fingers clutched the mahogany rail.I waved ribbons of disquiet from the deck,fear stabbing my uncharted ribs,while white-gloved sailors saluted

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My Generation

I was number 36 of the Beatles Fan Club, in around 1963.  I was 13 years old and crazy about John Lennon.  I still have

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